HR 1941

2	House Resolution
3	A resolution requesting the Congressional Delegation of
4	the State of Florida to support federal legislation to
5	immediately and permanently repeal the death tax.
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7	WHEREAS, under tax relief legislation passed in 2001, the
8	death tax was temporarily phased out but not permanently
9	eliminated, and
10	WHEREAS, farmers and other small business owners will face
11	losing their farms and businesses if the Federal Government
12	resumes the heavy taxation of citizens at death, and
13	WHEREAS, this is a tax that is particularly damaging to
14	families who are working their way up the ladder and trying to
15	accumulate wealth for the first time, and
16	WHEREAS, employees suffer layoffs when small and medium-
17	size businesses are liquidated to pay death taxes, and
18	WHEREAS, if the death tax had been repealed in 1996, the
19	economy of the United States would have realized billions of
20	dollars each year in extra output and an average of 145,000
21	additional new jobs would have been created, and
22	WHEREAS, having repeatedly passed in the United States
23	House of Representatives and Senate, repeal of the death tax
24	holds wide bipartisan support, NOW, THEREFORE,
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26	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
27	Florida:
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29	That the House of Representatives of the State of Florida
30	requests our elected Representatives and Senators in the United
31	States Congress to support federal legislation to immediately
32	and permanently repeal the death tax.
33	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be
34	transmitted to the members of the Congressional Delegation of
35	the State of Florida.

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